Learned on Saturday Evening that the idf are discovered six bodies in the Gaza Strip and we were waiting identification of those. One of those has now been identified as hersch Goldberg Polin, the Israeli American who viewers may recall seeing in the wake of the hamas led Terrorist Attacks of october the seventh with half of his left arm blown off. He subsequently appeared in Hamas Hostage Video several months ago, his parents have been incredibly vocal. They appeared at the Democratic National Convention. Theyve met with President Biden and theyve been tireless in their campaign to get not just hersh released but also all of the hostages still remaining in the Gaza Strip released as well. The family of hersh put out a Statement Saying with broken hearts, the goldberg family, and the goldbergpolin family, excuse me, as devastated to announce the death if their beloved Son And Brother hersh, the family. Thanks you all for your Love And Support and asked for privacy at this time Presiden
Mentation is going to radically improve this case has been a lifesaver. Im our Life Signs in rehoboth beach, delaware. And this is cnn you are in the cnN Newsroom. Hi, everyone. Im Jessica Dean in New York, and we have a Breaking News in the Israel Hamas War He Israeli Military issuing a rare announcement, their forces have discovered a number of bodies in the gaza strip, moments ago, President Biden acknowledged the discovery to reporters. Now thIs News has prompted the hostage and hostages and missing Families Forum in israel. To call for the public to mobilize, to pressure the netanyahu government to reach an agreement on a Hostage And Ceasefire deal. There are currently 107 total hostages living and dead are still being held in gaza. That is, according to israel and the Hostage Forum see Cnn International Diplomatic editor Nic Robertson is In Jerusalem and nick, its been several hours now since the idf put out what youve categorized and explained as a very rarE Statement, what more
Everyone. Welcome to cnn this morning. Im amara walker. Im omar jimenez in for victor blackwell. You woke up, youre here. You didnt scare me off. It was intimidating but we made it. We want to start with, look, we have a lot to talk about. Lawmakers getting ready to return to capitol hill. Will they be able to avoid a Government Shutdown . Plus, stranded in the desert. Tens of thousands of people stuck at the burning man festival in the Black Rock Desert after torrential rain in the area. They are being told to shelter in place and conserve food and water. And those scorching hot temperatures just wont let up. How hot its going to get if you are heading outside for labor day and when you could see relief. This week we will talk to an expert about the impact on the opioid crisis. Congress is getting ready to work and hit the ground running. Senators are back in d. C. On tuesday followed by the house the next week. Both chambers are facing a time crunch on a number of key issues. On octo
arabia and israel where israeli planes can now land in saudi arabia and vice versa. this is a huge deal . saudi arabia, of course, is the keystone, the anti israeli arab. bloc and if we canbe get normalized relations between saudi arabia and israel,twank i think that ia huge, huge step.p. these islands in the red sea, you know, them sailed past tenso them. a lot of tension over the years , saudi arabiao and israel. that looks like it s going to be in the past right now. it does seem to me that therere is meaningful progress, not on the energy front, ironically, maybe bitterly ironically, because we need it. but on the political front whereby saudi arabia now o joining many other arab states in normalizing relations. ra ha all right. the abraham accords going on . yes. so we don t really give biden credit for this. way. i mean, biden didn t do this. the guy o can barely get over there and decide whether it s going to shake his hand or fist bump. soso as for the fist bump, i go to you,
accept his op apology and hope to move on and talk about the issues that women care about. and let me ask you about the potential fallout, and we have sources telling our own chris jansing that there some discussion about pence potentially leaving the ticket. obviously, he is going to be waiting and to see what happens in the debate and it is a pivotal moment, but what are you hearing about that? is that a possibility? no, i was with the top person of his team before walking over here, and mr. pence is on board with us, and we are on board with him, and so proud to have him on the ticket and so proud of the debate performance and absolutely united together until november 8th. but a.j., a sense that donald trump may not be able to survive this. you have so many republicans calling for him to get out of the race. they say that this is es s essentially a bridge too far. do you believe he can survive this? can he still win? absolutely. the republicans calling for the ouster are